Originally Posted by Maelochs

I took this advice and it turned out to be absolutely correct.
What is ‘generic” Giant?

To me “Blue” might be a one-off custom highly valued by the six people who own one, or could be a “generic” frame sold in a Canadian box store.

The companies in China which make the vast majority of frames (and almost all the parts on your bike, regardless of the decal, was made in a factory in China) are only ‘generic” if a major manufacturer doesn’t order them and pay for them.

You could call them “direct sale” frames.

Or you could look down on them, and on all the tens of thousands of people who have been riding these frames for the past ten years and loving them. it’s cool.

We can all chuckle when people pay four times as much for a decal.
If yuo can afford $400 for a fork, do it. If it was me, I’d buy a whole frame, but if you would rather just buy a fork for that same cash, go ahead. Really, the only thing that matters is that You are happy with what you bought.

But seriously ... is the fork hand-carved by elves from a single block of unicorn horn or something? How much “design excellence” and “superior hand-crafting” does it take to make just a fork? I think the price is a little steep, is all I am saying.

Again, so long after everything is spent and you are back on the road, you are happy, none of the rest matters.